let me know of any buildings, spaces, venues, rooms, galleries in your town/city where you think this would work! We are bringing headphone amplifiers and inflatable space pods for everyone and it is an all ages show… so this does not need to be your typical music venue with PA system or bar or anything.…

So it’s one day after our first Music to Draw to… event in Montreal. It was such a wonderful night for all of us here at kid koala HQ. I was so proud of them Montreal kids. Absolutely everyone brought something to work on… and they pretty much got right to it once they got in. …

For some reason or other, I’ve recently decided to pursue an education in the almost extinct craft of cutting vinyl. I found a record cutting machine at vinylrecorder.com and phoned the company. The designer of the vinylrecorder, Mr. Ulrich Sourisseau, politely told me,

“I cannot sell you this machine unless you come to Germany for training.”

“Oh.”

Fast forward 4 months… it turned out I had 3 days off between gigs on my last tour in Europe so I made arrangements to visit vinylrecorder HQ which is somewhere in the middle of the German countryside.…

Here are some scratch boards from the forthcoming Space Cadet book+soundtrack. This is the quiet album that I have promised many of you. Timing-wise it’s working out as we are heading into winter here in Montreal. And once that snow hits… you scratch all tear-jerky like… it’s kind of inescapable. …

Here are some test pics from Chapter 1 of the forthcoming book about the clarinet-playing mosquito. I finished the storyboards a few months after Nufonia Must Fall was released. Louisa Schabas and I had so much fun working on that book that we decided to start another project together. …